116 
PROGRESS REPORT, HYDROGRAPHY, 1893 AND 1894. [boll. 131. 
Data relating to wells in Kansas — Continued. 
WALLACE COUNTY. 
No. 
95 
96 
97 
98 
99 
100 
101 
102 
103 
104 
105 
106 
107 
108 
109 
110 
111 
112 
113 
114 
115 
116 
117 
118 
119 
120 
Post-office. 
Owner of well. 
Location of 
well. 
© 
s 
P 
© 
© P 
A 
o . 
as* 
Cost of— 
T. 
R. 
S. 
Well. 
Ma- 
chinery. 
L. Eitle 
12 
11 
11 
11 
42 
42 
40 
40 
10 
24 
2 
14 
1893 
1893 
1888 
1889 
1894 
1894 
1894 
1889 
1891 
1888 
1890 
1894 
1887 
1893 
1893 
1888 
1889 
1884" 
1885 
1894 
1880 
1894 
1894 
In. 
12 
36 
42 
48 
48 
48 
48 
72 
"'~60' 
72 
72 
a 36 
60 
6 
42 
72 
30 
36 
6 
180 
36 
6 
Feet. 
108 
65 
76 
125 
39 
44 
38 
20 
24 
21 
50 
27 
20 
40 
135 
36 
35 
Feet. 
19 
4 
8 
5 
18 
16 
12 
4 
14 
3 
5 
7 
3 
4 
12 
12 
5 
$45. 00 
25.00 
40.00 
$95. 00 
do 
W. F. Corden 
G. L. Baughman 
Oscar Post 
N. A. Ferlen 
do 
Presley 
85. 00 
Sharon Springs. 
do 
12.00 
15.00 
15.00 
20.00 
10.00 
10.00 
35.00 
11.00 
5.00 
20.00 
37.50 
15.00 
100. 00 
102. 00 
99.00 
65.00 
180.00 
Hugh Graham 
J. H. Ewell 
13 
13 
12 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
14 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
14 
13 
12 
40 
40 
41 
40 
40 
41 
40 
40 
39 
40 
41 
40 
40 
39 
42 
42 
42 
42 
42 
26 
26 
22 
34 
20 
24 
27 
24 
30 
12 
34 
27 
22 
26 
24 
34 
2 
32 
10 
do 
...do 
Samuel Halsey 
B. G. Hurlbur't 
N. W. Hayes 
W.M. Swartz 
J. M. Ericson 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
105. 00 
...do 
H.H.Yost .. 
15.00 
56.00 
do 
Win. Blodgett 
...do 
. . do 
Water Co . . . 
150. 00 
do 
J. Gorsuck 
Geo. Allman 
S.D.Yoxall 
C.E.Seed 
U.P.R.R 
Samuel Johnson 
Schoolhonse 
Wallace 
Weskan 
do 
13 
10 
159 
143 
40 
130 
14* 
68 
2 
2 
18 
7 
7 
12 
1 
15 
19.00 
60.00 
70.00 
do 
do 
do 
65.00 
do 
do 
....: ::: 
a Inches, square. 
No. 1. — Bored well ; depth of water does not vary ; can be lowered with a bucket ; 
quality of water, soft, but salty; water raised by hand buckets; is used for domestic 
supply. Strata passed through: Soil, 3 feet; sand, 26 feet; blue shale, 56 feet. 
No. 2. — Now closed (156 l ). Two wells, a mile west, each have a depth of 175 feet. 
No. 3. — Drilled well (155) ; depth of water does not vary; 180 barrels per day; can 
not be easily lowered; quality of water, medium hard; water raised by wind pump 
with 8-foot wheel; is used for domestic supply and for 100 head of stock. Strata: 
Soil, 15 feet; whitish clay, magnesia rock; sand, gravel with water. 
No. 4. — Dug well (139) ; depth of water does not vary, but has decreased from cav- 
ing; quality of water, hard; water raised by pulley and bucket; is used for domestic 
supply. Strata passed through: Soil, 2 feet; yellow dirt; sand, blue clay (shale) 
with water in top. This well is on the Arickaree bottom. 
No. 5. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; 3 barrels per hour lowers it, but 
the level is restored in half an hour ; quality of water, hard ; water raised by pulley 
and buckets; is used for domestic supply and 8 head of horses. Strata passed 
through: Soil, 1 foot; yellow clay, 13 feet; fine, hard sand, 3| feet; gravel, 1$ feet. 
No. 6. — Drilled well (168) ; depth of water does not vary ; can not be easily lowered ; 
quality of water, hard; water raised by wind pump. 
No. 7. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; 4 to 5 barrels per hour; can not 
be easily lowered ; quality of water, medium soft ; water raised by wind pump with 
8-foot wheel ; is used for domestic supply and for 26 head of stock. Strata passed 
through : Soil, 2 feet ; yellow clay to water ; soapstone with water at top. 
No. 8. — Dug well; depth of water does not vary; can be lowered, but the level is 
soon restored; water raised by wind pump with 8-foot wheel; is used for domestic 
supply, for 30 head of stock, and from 60 to 70 hogs. Strata passed through: All 
yellow clay; water in quicksand. This well is in a canyon on the Hackberry, very 
deep, the yellow clay (plains marl) rising high all around. 
1 The figures in parentheses are the numbers given to wells on PI. XLI1, Sixteenth Annual Report. 
